Number two. My name is rosa parks. And number three. My name is rosa parks. Once again, panel, these three ladies all claim to be civil rights champion rosa parks, and lets start the questioning with kitty carlisle. Number two, what led up to this glorious moment on that bus . How did you feel at the moment of arrest . [ bell dings ] that bell tells us the time is up. And now, of course, its time to vote whoever, in your opinion, is the real rosa parks. I voted for number two, and its just based on a feeling. She just has that gentleness, i think, that would allow to be defiant. Okay. Any one of these three ladies could have had the courage, and im ashamed to say, i dont really know which one it really is, but i voted for number two. All right. And nipsey, who got your vote . Well, ill have to disqualify myself. I know mrs. Parks, and i was one of the entertainers on that show between selma and montgomery, but ms. Rosa parks is 10 foot tall, and shes a legend and a hero in the democrac
-joan little was the first woman in the united states who ever fought back and killed her assailant who was, indeed, exonerated. so that was a landmark case. -rosa parks considered that one of the great victories in the justice struggle. [ camera shutters clicking ] -there s a continuum from her work in the south in the 1940s. i m thinking specifically of recy taylor. -the recy taylor case spurs nixon and parks to run for branch leadership. and that s when nixon runs for branch president and wins. she runs for secretary and wins. e.d. nixon and rosa parks begin a partnership that s going to change the face of american history.